I could easily replace "Catholic church" with "religious", but that would just piss off way more people.
This may be something lost in translation. I would PREFER to attack a person in very specific circumstances. Fairness isn't an issue here, just preference. It is unfair that I am leaping to an assumption of translation issues. But I did it anyway, hope you don't feel too attacked.
Gn #nostr.
I find I am disgusted by many things. Some very general categorizations:
- culture taken out of context
- Imposing beliefs on others
- Disregard for consequences
Just these 3 categories make television almost entirely unwatchable. I'm curious how much they impede my meager efforts to connect socially.
Yes, I consider the stories told to children at church on Sundays to reinforce a systemically abusive enslavement of their minds, and I would not wish it on any child. The stories told to adults aren't any better.
All parents are potential abusers.
See, but its not. Accepting someone beat you or battered you does not mean you must allow it to reoccur, or remain in a similar relationship with them. By all means, the nature of that relationship should obviously change.
It means you accept that they did those things, and that they may do those things again, and support their personal progress and improvement in life.
You never need to grant someone power over you. Accepting them in spite of their past acts is a way of taking that power back for yourself, and making it your choice when to grant it or give it in the future, if ever.
Is it? I consider the religious notion of original sin to be extremely adverse to early childhood development, really from conception forward, and consider any religion and its adherents that believe this notion to be abusive toward children. It's pretty universal, at least in the western world. More children believe they were born sinners and must live up to some proposed deity's standards than those who were raped. But that's religion, so its okay, I guess. So is mutilating genitalia, practicing mock cannibalism, making sacrifices to appease deities, whatever. I have to accept all of that is just fine, while your children become the good slaves they are expected to become. Super!
So accept you I will, not ignoring any of this, but simply accepting.
I prefer it to one where I know I am wrong. I also prefer it to one where sanity and logic have been ignored, trampled, or left behind. It is very hard to argue where A does not equal A, but rather B with a random sprinkling of C.
Oh look, Q.
Gn #nostr.
I miss you.
In some ways, this is the kind of thinking that makes me reconsider any kind of judgement against others. While we may all have the potential to become something we detest, many of us already have done things we detest. It is also not universal what is deemed detestable.
If I wish to be supportive of someone I do not know (and by know, I mean at the deepest of levels, but the English language is failing me here), then I must accept that they may have done detestable things that I am unaware of, and may yet do detestable things in the future.
Your go-to detestable thing seems to be rape. For me, it is child abuse. This is for me, the purity test: I must be able to stand beside someone who has abused a child, and who may yet abuse a child, or the gesture of support is not genuine, tainted by suspicion and judgement, and worthless.
Not happy thoughts, but what I am owning in my quest to be a better human.
Gn roya 🌛
Gn #nostr.
Interesting times indeed.
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Gn #nostr.
A little early for me, but that's ok. Then I won't feel the need to check in later.
As a person that tends toward routine, I need to be able to forgive myself if I don't indulge in social media every day.
Got some things to sort out. I think the next few months are going to be interesting times.
Gn #nostr.
Today was one of those days where it felt like the fiat mine was trying to fight me. If there are more ways to make my job more annoying and inefficient, I'm really not interested in finding all of them.
Gn #nostr 💤🛌
Situation normal.
Today's total was definitely over 400. I just happened to do 310 without stopping.
My longest is still 16 hours straight through to Wyoming, followed by a 3-hour nap, then 9 hours to Vegas. That was rough, but I could (and would) do it again if I needed to. I've driven for a living (as a courier) before too, but that was a long time ago.